Both B5 and DS9 had bars on station, but have and space stations have a fast food restaurant?
Even though it’s not a space station, the Mickey D’s in The Fifth Element would probably be close.
Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station?
Submitted 2 months ago by HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club to [deleted]
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Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GreyShuck@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.
Subtracty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Was going to say with all of the episode of Dr. Who, it had to be in one of them.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are food kiosks on the Promenade on DS9.
picnicolas@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
There are 2.5 million franchises of Monolith Burger in Space Quest lore! spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/Monolith_Burger
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There is a jumja kiosk on the DS9 promenade. It also had a bunch of different restaurants. Klingon and Bajoran are the two i remember off the top of my head.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The Klingon restaurant on DS9 was more of a sit-down restaurant IIRC
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes but all Klingon food is fast food since it’s served live.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Futurama
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I seem to remember a scene in Babylon 5 where Vir got sick eating at a place that sounded like a rebranded McDonalds. Londo was chastising him saying you know Centauri stomachs can’t handle fast food. I wish I had time to rewatch that show.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The Minbari fast food restaurant in brown sector named McBari’s with the golden head bone. S5E14
EABOD25@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That one is difficult because in star trek they had replicators that could make any food instantly. I’ve never actually watch B5, so can’t speak on that, but at least in the star trek universe, fast food would be pointless unless it was in the Delta or Gamma quadrants because it was never spoken about with the residents there. Good question though
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Voyager mentioned several times that replicator technology was not widely known in the Delta quadrant. They had Neelix cooking slow food to save on replicator energy usage. There were plot points of possible technology trade with the Kazon and others.
xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Star Trek still has traditionalists and hobbyists that prepare food without replicators. Sisko’s father famously ran a Cajun restaurant in New Orleans. I wouldn’t be surprised if someone ran a fast food burger shop because “the fries just don’t crunch the same from a replicator” or something.
It also would be possible to have something like a drive-through replicator shop, which would be like fast food.
There are a few restaurants mentioned on the wiki, but they don’t distinguish between traditional preparation and replicator food (it includes Quark’s on the list). None of them look like fast food though. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Restaurant
neidu2@feddit.nl 2 months ago
ISS orbits at ~766km/s, so technically any pictured food up there can be considered fast food.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 months ago
All food is fast food if your frame of reference is the galactic center
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
And we’re all orbiting the center of the Milky Way at 220km/s. Fast food for everyone!
0ops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Does the Axiom on Wall-E count as a space station?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The Expanse depicts a lot of local street food vendors on different space stations throughout the solar system
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Came here to say this. Expanse hits the notes of “real people actually live on this ship/station” way more than any other sci-fi I’ve consumed. Fast food, bars, brothels, restrooms, storage and maintenance areas, all of these are specifically called out at most stations.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I noticed this too, The Expanse does that so well, really fleshing out what life would be like living as a grunt in The Belt. They had their own culture, their own sayings, their own food. Like any colony, it gave host to any number of establishments meant to provide a bit of comfort out in the inky black nothing. The shared suffering also gave them a sense of community, which is a powerful motivator when the far off motherland starts imposing increasingly burdensome levies… Makes you want to grab the closest thing and hurl it at them! 😉
WATCH THE EXPANSE
It’s amazing.
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not technically a Space Station, but there’s a whole Invader Zim episode on an entire planet being dedicated to fast food, Food Courtia iirc
digger@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think the mess hall with a food replicator is as close as you’re going to find.
What do you think the function is of a fast food restaurant in a society with no money and instant food machines.
This is of course with Earth in mind. I have no doubt there are fast food places on Ferenginar.
Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who hasn’t really watched the show, I see all sorts of things and just accept it. My brain can not handle it having a society with no money. Capitalism has ruined me
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
The replimat?
cabbage@piefed.social 2 months ago
Wall-E had people ordering liquid fast food on their iPads and having it immediately delivered by drone. So fast food on a space station, but not a conventional restaurant experience i guess.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure there was in Firefly
Trabic@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Fruity Oaty Bars come to mind, but there is no way Blue Sun didn’t also have Fast food restaurants.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The replimat on ds9?
whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Spaceburger looks pretty dope.
JustZ@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Deep Space 9 had food replicators.
Fondots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Outer Worlds there’s a couple establishments aboard the groundbreaker that could potentially count as fast food by some definition.
The stand on the citadel in mass effect is maybe fast food-ish
I vaguely remember seeing some stands in the background of Babylon 5 that could potentially have been something like fast food, but I never got into Babylon 5 too much so I can’t say much about that, I just have some vague memories of some parts I’ve seen that looked like fast food wouldn’t be out of place.
Pretty much any time there’s a big space station with a city-like interior I assume there’s probably something like fast food somewhere on board, maybe even visible in the background somewhere, though I can’t really think of any particular examples or any time it was specifically highlighted
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 months ago
There a vending machine on the Mars base in For All Mankind.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s five-star, not fast food, but there’s Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which serves a delicious Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Don’t let the five-stars scare you off:
All you have to do is deposit one penny in a savings account in your own era, and when you arrive at the End of Time the operation of compound interest means that the fabulous cost of your meal has been paid for. (Many claim that this is not merely impossible, but clearly insane.)
This is why the advertising executives of the star system of Bastablon came up with this slogan: "If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Baby long 5 had at least a few pizza take aways.
Trabic@lemmy.one 2 months ago
How can you forget McBari’s!
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There was a Howard Johnson’s restaurant on the space station in 2001.
Of course, both Pan Am and Howard Johnson’s are defunct
itstoowet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SS13 has a chef on the station who makes all sorts of food, but mostly pizzas and burgers. I don’t recommend eating their food though, it’s pretty likely it will be made of your coworkers.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I promise I stuck to making banana bread! So much banana bread. And when frying was a thing, deep fried banana bread!
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I think there are some fast food restaurants on the Citadel of Ricks in Rick and Morty.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s rare to come across a fellow Chicken Invaders fan
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Soylent green
Dabundis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s at least one instance on futurama where a space ship is flown through a drive-through that’s just out in the vacuum of space
terraborra@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Fishy Joe’s in “The problem with Popplers” iirc.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pop a Poppler in your mouth,
When you come to Fishy Joe’s.
What they’re made of is a mystery,
Where they come from, no one knows.
You can pick 'em, you can lick 'em,
You can chew 'em, you can stick 'em,
And if you promise not to sue us,
You can shove one up your nose.